[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10708: Root level plugin admin menus not showing in Wordpress 2.8.4

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#10708: Root level plugin admin menus not showing in Wordpress 2.8.4
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 Reporter:  tinwatchman   |       Owner:  westi     
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  Plugins       |     Version:  2.8.4     
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:            
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 Hello -

 I'm trying to develop a plugin on an install of Wordpress 2.8.4. However,
 I'm being held up by the fact that I can't seem to create root-level admin
 menus.

 To make sure something wasn't going wrong elsewhere in the plugin, I
 created a new test plugin to isolate the problem. Here's my code:

 {{{
 <?php
 /*
 Plugin Name: Admin Menu Test
 Plugin URI: http://www.jonstout.net/
 Description: Attempts to create a new root level menu page in Wordpress
 2.8.4
 Version: 0.1
 Author: Jon Stout
 Author URI: http://www.jonstout.net/
 */
 ?>
 <?php

 function menutest_mypage() { ?>
         <div class="wrap">
         <h2>Menu Test</h2>
         <p>Menu test was successful!</p>
     </div>
 <?php }

 function menutest_add_admin_menu() {
         $menutestMenuPage = add_menu_page('Menu Test','Menu
 Test',1,__FILE__,'menutest_mypage');
 }

 add_action('admin-menu','menutest_add_admin_menu');

 ?>
 }}}

 Starting up the plugin resulted in - no new admin menu. With all other
 plugins turned off, using the default Wordpress theme; on n Linux-Apache
 server running PHP 5.2.8. What makes it particularly bizarre is that I
 have another plugin using the same sort of code on another site / another
 server using nearly the exact same code without any problems whatsoever.
 I've tried a complete reinstall, complete with a new database and
 everything; still no luck.

 Does anyone have any idea what's going on? The only thing I can think of
 at this point is that there might be a bug in the plugin API code in that
 security update that happened over the weekend. Any ideas?

 Thank you for your time.

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